Description |
1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
OUP E-Books
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Contents |
Community Colleges and the American Social Order -- Community Colleges in the United States: From Liberal Arts to Vocational Training -- Organizing a National Education Movement: 1900-1945 -- The Takeoff Period: 1946-1970 -- The Great Transformation: 1970-1985 -- Community College Transformation at the State and Local Level: The Case of Massachusetts -- Designs for Comprehensive Community Colleges: 1958-1970 -- The Process of Vocationalization: Mechanisms and Structures -- The Final Transformation in Massachusetts: Market Pressures, Fiscal Crises, and Business Influences, 1971-1985 -- The Community College and the Politics of Inequality |
Summary |
A history of community colleges in America; examines the shift of emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs and the implications of this for upward mobility |
Analysis |
United States Community colleges, history |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-299) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Community colleges -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Education, Humanistic -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Vocational education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Community colleges
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Education, Higher
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Education, Humanistic
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Vocational education
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Junior college
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Tertiärbereich
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Hoger onderwijs.
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Gelijkheid.
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Onderwijsvernieuwing.
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Geschichte (1900-1985)
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United States
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USA
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Karabel, Jerome
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LC no. |
89002891 |
ISBN |
9780199729265 |
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0199729263 |
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1423763726 |
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9781423763727 |
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9786610439874 |
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6610439877 |
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1280439874 |
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9781280439872 |
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1601296479 |
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9781601296474 |
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9780197560044 |
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0197560040 |
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0199878803 |
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9780199878802 |
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